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evolution

Gorillas may have evolved a way to beat a cheating berry plant

Life

Gorillas may have evolved a way to beat a cheating berry plant

A "deceitful" West African plant makes super-sweet, but low-calorie berries to attract animals that disperse their seeds. Gorillas can see through the ploy – at least, that’s the theory

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Artist's impression of two T. rex chasing smaller dinosaurs

Life

T. rex lookalike suggests that tiny arms developed for a purpose

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Darwin's discovery: The remarkable history of evolution

Life

Darwin's discovery: The remarkable history of evolution

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hornbill

Life

The exotic animals that bankrolled the forgotten evolutionist

Regulars

A graph of some results in the foreground with two scientist in lab coats inspecting data in the background

Humans

Evolutionary forces are causing a boom in bad science

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Richard Dawkins's biomorphs come back to life

Life

Richard Dawkins's biomorphs come back to life

Culture

Macaques using stone tools

Life

‘Monkey archaeology’ reveals macaque’s own Stone Age culture

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Illustration of a supernovae

Space

Supernovae 2 million years ago may have changed human behaviour

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Hot spring

Life

Ancient enzyme resurrected from the ancestor of all bacteria

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A fragment of human jaw

Humans

Mystery human hobbits ruled tiny Asian island 700,000 years ago

New jaw and skull bone fossils found on the island of Flores back the idea that the hobbit was a mini Homo erectus, only adapted to island life much earlier than we imagined  

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Life

Life on the edge: Saving the world's hotbeds of evolution

Features

Life

Domestic dogs may have evolved separately in Europe and Asia

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Earth

Meet the new Earthlings who will take over our planet

Features

Life

Orcas are first non-humans whose evolution is driven by culture

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